hold-up

英 [ˈhəʊld ʌp]

美 [ˈhoʊld ʌp]

n.  停顿; 阻滞; 阻碍; 持枪抢劫

复数：hold-ups　

化学

Collins.1

牛津词典

noun

• 停顿；阻滞；阻碍
  a situation in which sth is prevented from happening for a short time
  1. What's the hold-up?
     遇到什么障碍了？
  2. We should finish by tonight, barring hold-ups.
     倘若没有延误，我们应该在今晚完工。
  3. Sorry I'm late. There was a hold-up on the motorway.
     抱歉，我来晚了，公路上堵车了。
• 持枪抢劫
  an act of stealing from a bank, etc. using a gun

柯林斯词典

• 持械抢劫
  Ahold-upis a situation in which someone is threatened with a weapon in order to make them hand over money or valuables.
• 造成延搁的事物;阻碍;障碍
  Ahold-upis something which causes a delay.
• N-COUNT 交通阻塞
  Ahold-upis the stopping or very slow movement of traffic, sometimes caused by an accident which happened earlier.
  1. They arrived late due to a motorway hold-up.
     他们因高速公路交通堵塞迟到了。

双语例句

• Mr Albanese said any hold-up of ships carrying ore to China for spot market sales had not had "any material impact" on Rio.
  艾尔巴尼斯表示，阻碍船舶将铁矿石运往中国用于现货市场销售，对力拓没有“任何实质性影响”。
• Nonetheless, it was taking the threat seriously, fearful that the lastest hold-up marks a significant increase in labour tensions that have been present for several months.
  尽管如此，政府仍严肃看待此次威胁，担心最新事件会标志着持续数月的劳资紧张关系严重加剧。
• An Experimental Study on the Liquid Hold-up of Gas-Liquid Biphasic Tilted Descending Pipelines
  气液两相流倾斜下降管持液率实验研究
• Then the man drove away, apparently in a great hurry. A wave of train robberies followed the Reno brothers 'startling hold-up.
  然后，劫车人迫不及待地急驰而去。雷诺兄弟抢劫火车得手之后，带动了一波火车劫案的风潮。
• The major hold-up, said Stern, is the large costs involved.
  斯特恩表示，巨额成本是载人航天的主要障碍。
• They hit the hold-up alarms, I gotta get out before the cops show.
  他们按动警钟，我得在警察来之前离去。
• The hold-up was a government connection?
  那次枪劫跟政府有关？
• The main parameters of gas-liquid two-phase flow, such as flow patterns, pressure drop and liquid hold-up, are investigated in this paper.
  研究了不同流型下压力降与持液率的特点，以及压降脉动信号的方差与持液率、气、液相流量之间的关系。
• They arrived late due to a motorway hold-up.
  他们因高速公路交通堵塞迟到了。
• There was a hold-up at the bank over on2nd street.
  在第二大街的银行里发生了一起抢劫案。